Hi Reg, A quick note hoping that you and yours are well and have not been affected by the virus. Chris and I are both fine and still loving it in South Africa. It will be 22 years next March when we moved here, South Africans are lovely friendly people and we have never had…
Author: Robert Stutely
Mary Barron 1957–2020
The sad news that Mary has died was announced on Facebook on 24 October 2020. Funeral details can be seen here. Mary joined HMSO Norwich in June 1985 and initially worked in Supplies, S7. She went on to work in Stock Control and Supply Credit Control before moving on to Copiers. Following Privatisation she continued…
28 Oct 2020 – Oldies on Farceboot
The number of HMSOldies accessing the site from desktop systems is rapidly diminishing, and with the onset of smaller and smaller hand-held devices readers are less inclined to read lengthy submissions. There is an increase in the numbers accessing the HMSOldies Facebook page. This month alone we have welcomed new-reader Mike Butler, onetime member of…
Michael Yemm 1943–2020
The sad news was passed on by David Berwick on 21 October 2010: ‘It was with great sadness and some shock that late on Monday 19th October I came by the news that one of my former colleagues, Mike Yemm, had passed away on 4th October and that his funeral service was the very next…
Brian Ekers 1935–2020
The sad news that Brian died, at home with his wife Eileen and with his family, on Saturday 29 August 2020 came from his son Bill. He had been diagnosed with cancer in 2019. At our last meeting at his house in Thorpe, Norwich, Brian gave me a written summary of his life so far.…
Anne Florence Bussey, 1938–2019
Bob Allder has passed on the sad news that Anne died in 2019. She joined HMSO as Administrative Officer in 1979 and had worked in Parliamentary Press. This notice appeared in The Gazette. Bob writes: I worked with Miss Anne Bussey at the Parliamentary Press. At one time she was the Industrial Nurse at Harrow…
2 September 2020 – HMSO Cardiff
Phill Brooks has unearthed these photos of the Cardiff Bookshop and Llanishen Reprographic Unit from the early 1970s. Has anyone any publishable reminiscences for HMSOldies? Mike Lynn adds: It would have been the early 1980s that I went to Cardiff (as Director of Publications Distribution) to tell the local Council and the staff that we…
1 September 2020 – From John Nash
1 September 2020 – From John Nash Good evening Reg, So sorry to learn about Brian Ekers who I encountered on numerous occasions I had not realised that he, too, was a ‘Croydon Boy’. In my Am Dram days I also knew Roy Hudd who helped with our Company before going on to a Design…
5 Sep 2020 – From Margery Kraszewski [in France]
Bonjour to the HMSOldies team I was pleasantly surprised to see the addition of the email that John and I sent regarding our move to France in 2005. It is now twenty-five years plus and although John passed away just over seven years ago I am still going strong and still loving living here even…
Kathleen Holland 1932–2020
Annette Conn has passed on the following sad news: ‘Kath passed away peacefully last night, 26 August 2020. She had been in the Oakwood Nursing Home for a few weeks and had been well cared for there but had got weaker and less mobile ever since her operation a few months ago. Her Cousin Ann…